[H]ardOCP Water Cooled Xbox 360 Options

[Xbox-Scene]

[H]ardOCP Water Cooled Xbox 360 -- Posted by XanTium on January 3 18:22 EST
The guys over at [H]ard|OCP built a water-cooled Xbox 360 and posted an article fully explaining how they did it and how 'cool' their 360 is:
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Four years ago next month we built the world's first water cooled Xbox. At the time, a lot of people asked us why we would want to water cool an Xbox, mostly because they didn't understand the motivation behind it. The fact of the matter was that the standard heat sink on the 700MHz Intel processor would barely get hot under normal use and surely didn't warrant the performance offered by a custom water cooling kit. At the time, we did it simply because no one else had done it and "because we could." That was our motivation then and that is partially our motivation now.

We had plans to water cool an Xbox 360 for over a year now. Little did we know that not only will this water cooling project be more fun than the original, but it may even be practical. Imagine that. With reports of heat related issues and a heat sink that can get almost too hot to touch after marathon gaming sessions, the Xbox 360 water cooling project now had a sense of purpose. We bought a retail Xbox 360 specifically for this project. The minute we got it back to the [H] labs we tore into it and, with a little help from the fine folks at Koolance, we have put together a water cooling solution that will handle anything the Xbox 360 can throw at it and literally knock your socks off.

With stock Xbox 360 cooling, after an hour of Quake 4, the back of the motherboard temperature was 150.8ºF (66ºC).
With the water cooled Xbox 360, after an hour of Quake 4, the back of the motherboard was a full 50ºF cooler than stock cooling at 101ºF (38.4ºC).

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Check out the full article on hardocp.com.

[kidkinetix]

That's cool i think this solution looks better then the one posted a few days ago. Something to look into I suppose. Where is the mod that makes the dvd drive quiet and not suck though?

This post has been edited by kidkinetix: Jan 4 2006, 12:35 AM

[poiygon]

That's excellent results. I just wish it wasn't so bulky and that it wouldn't void my warranty.

Where is the mod that makes the dvd drive quiet and not suck though?

Seriously.

[emko]

This one uses water. i would say that the CoolIT is way better then this then

[Glock.45]

Next they should make a water cooled power supply.

[ILLusions0fGrander]

lol, guess i posted it in the wrong forum... saw it on slashdot.com a while ago

i personally think its kinda crappy looking next to it

This post has been edited by ILLusions0fGrander: Jan 4 2006, 02:08 AM

[mde3233967]

if i wanted a water cooled 360 this bad i would go ahead and throw it in a PC tower so it will look way better.

[nosoup4you718]

wooooo glad to see some [h]ard ocp stuff on x-s!

[bosstitan187]

That's excellent results. I just wish it wasn't so bulky and that it wouldn't void my warranty.
Seriously.

fuck the warranty

[Vayate]

The water-cooled 360 is almost as big as the original Xbox. >_> This is awesome if you don't move your 360 around a lot though.

[ILLusions0fGrander]

fuck the warranty

yeah, fuck the warranty, especially if your xbox goes dead 2 months from now... id rather stick out the lousy 3 months they give you to make sure nothing goes wrong, trade in for a hopefully newer version and then worry less about voiding the only means of returning the system

[TSOPrano]

How about make something useful like a better cooling system for the PSU?

To me the console seems adequately ventilated and cooled unless one is a fool and covers it in a blanket or something.

[zilli0n]

Finally a person that understands the waterblock goes on the CPU not the heatsink... stupid llamma forum kids

[Avenger 2.0]

I like it. It's done with style

Warranty? I manage to fuck that up in the first days
If there wouldn't be any warranty sticker, I might not even have opened it.

[posiedon]

HOW TO WATER COOL AN XBOX 360 THE GHETTO WAY
STEP 1
TURN UNIT ON

STEP 2
SUBMERGE IN WATER (see figure #1)

FIGURE 1


YOUR XBOX WILL NOW RUN 75% COOLER NOW!!!!!!